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Kara V. here, reporting for duty.

I really am stumped. I'm not sure what I want to write about. I know that seems like a cop out or a cliche'. Maybe I just haven't thought hard enough. To be perfectly honest with my fellow classmates, my appearances on digital dialogue were pretty bare minimum. Obviously now, it's biting me in the butt. It's shown me that not taking an interest earlier has resulted in me having little to no inspiration for my paper. It's my own fault. 

I'm racking my brain to figured out a topic that I'm interested and invested in. I don't want to write myself into a corner or write 5 pages and realize I'm bored out of my brains. Maybe you guys can help me as far as sparking  ideas in my brain.

One thing that really interests me is younger audiences. While not a English Teaching major, I am interested in writing for Juvenile audiences around the ages of 9-15. I don't really know what I want to to with that exactly and obviously, I want to write something original.

Here are some things that have come to mind:

(these are listed in order of interest level)

• Adaptations of Shakespeare in children's television shows. 
• Most kids TV show has been notorious for doing a Romeo + Juliet episode. It might be interesting to see how these adaptations work with young audience and track down all of the different programs that have made an episode that reflects a Shakespeare play.
• Maybe even connections in Disney? I've heard Lion King is a loose adaptation of Hamlet. It may be interesting to see if any other's mirror a Shakespeare plot and how/if it was planned. 
• Reflections of Shakespeare's character's in the modern day juvenile fiction.
• Harry Potter?
• Hunger Games?
• Something like that?
• Is there anything noteworthy in popular juvenile fiction today? Any obvious connections to Shakespeare?
• Success of stage productions of Shakespeare targeted toward younger audiences. 
• For example, the Henry V production we saw was confusing for me, a college student. I'm not sure how the kid audience kept up. Why do theatre companies think it's important to direct Shakespeare to a young audience? Does it work?
• Shakespeare in non-English speaking schools.
• Is it widely taught? Is it held with the same reverence as Western society?
• This isn't really as interesting to me. I'm not too keen on writing about classroom tactics. 

That's really all I've got. And none them are a super: "WOW I GOTTA WRITE ABOUT THIS!" topic.

Any other ideas relating to juvenile audiences are welcomed! I don't really want to take a teaching/classroom angle on it though. That is less interesting to me.

On another note, what I noticed in previous posts was that the topic chosen was measurable, unique, and interesting. It's best to narrow things down to have the most consistency possible. Hence why I'm so adement on finding a great topic for my paper.

That's all for now. It's late and I'm beat. Ciao! 

Kara V.